So many of the comments here seem to be completely unaware of what an EDR does. Do none of you all work for companies with managed devices? There isn't anything abnormal here...
I work on a REM team in a SOC for a big finance company all you US people know. An employee can't hardly fart in front of their corporate machine without us knowing about it. How do you all think managed cyber security works?
The point you seem to be (intentionally?) missing is that this wasn't installed by the IT staff in an org to an employee's computer, an user downloaded their software to trial it an they just happened to take a peek on all of his activity based on tenuous evidence at best.
They might be under the impression that all this activity is looked at by someone for curiosity’s sake -snooping. It isn’t. People only look and discover if there is reason (a critical alert or some legal action). No one goes snooping to see what sites Joe visited this morning for no reason at all.
Another beaver comment... I know you didn't explicitly say it, so I will just to clarify in case you meant well. For all the city folk on here who read the beaver dam stuff and infer that beavers are destructive to eco systems, rest assured this is not the case. Consequences for local eco systems? Yes. Positive ones. There is no shortage of information out there about this subject. Sorry to preach, but I happen to live in beaver country and have spent more time in the dwindling forests and wilderness than most people. When people start talking about beavers building dams in this context it sounds so ridiculous.
Another note: The largest beaver dam discovered is about .5 miles in length. Even if it was purely destructive to local eco systems it would hardly compare to human development.
I have beavers in my area too—I'm well aware that dammed lakes are their own rich ecosystems full of niches for other species to thrive in. The comparison was deliberate: There's no reason why humans shaping the environment has to be a bad thing. Obviously the way we're doing it now is bad—I'm not disputing that—but we could simply do it well instead.
Of course, when species are destructive to their environments, that's natural too. Consider the mass extinction caused by cyanobacteria back when they first evolved. It's not "nature" we want, it's biodiversity and healthy ecosystems. Shrinking the human population to 500M might feel "natural" to some people, but it really has little to do with our actual environmental goals.
You must not be from around here. Most of us here on HN are lords, vassals, or nobles in this technofeudalist society. The technomonarch is currently giving us enough fiefs to behave appropriately.
I’m not sure of that. I expect most of the posters here are more like the equivalent of a skilled blacksmith.
I mean, it is a little weird because compensation these days usually includes stock, so, some ownership of the company. But not much real decision making power beyond the limited-scope decisions around we implement their will.
Maybe a consultant could be considered like a vassal?
I think this is the right analogy. A skilled blacksmith has influence in his village, but he is still operating at the mercy of his vassal lord, and by extension, the king of the lands. Speaking up against either would find him dispossessed rather quickly.
There definitely is a sort of pseudo generational gap of how peole interact with computers. I was having a conversation with a 20ish year old the other day about computer for storage and they didn't understand the filing cabinet analogy. Like, for then everything had to be in the desktop folder, but the concept that C:\Users\User\Desktop was like having a folder in a filing cabinet, where C: was the actual cabinet, was so alien to them.
The desktop metaphor makes it look like the desktop is the starting point. You can understand why someone who has not interacted with a directory through a terminal would think this.
My parents use their email inbox as a filing system. Specifically, a top of bucket filing system. They need something? Email it to them. Did you email it to them? Email again. They can find it if (and only if) it's near the top of their inbox.
A special kind of insanity that puts me in a mild, cold sweat. Such filesystems can come for your family too!
Worth noting, my father was an early adopter of the home computer. It's somehow regressed over the years.
Windows seems to make this deliberately confusing, eg displaying "Desktop" as the root of the hierarchy in the default Explorer window makes no sense (Desktop > Home > Desktop?). Then layer in typical corporate MS software like OneDrive, and it gets even weirder and harder to determine what's where on the local fs.
I have been on Firefox for some years now on Mac, Linux, Windows, and Android. Last year the IRS website had some issues, but that seems to be resolved. Otherwise, I've had zero breakages that cone to mind. I use ublock origin, and pivacy badger, and a few other extensions. I wonder if sometimes the issues people experience with firefox are actually caused from their extensions???
If you haven't used Firefox in a minute, I recommend trying it oht again.
I've been using kagi maybe a year now, and it is great. I know it is great because every so often I jump on someone else's computer for a task and have to search so.ething and I'm completely overwhelemed by what comes up.
I just tried the same thing with my name. Got me confused with someone else who is a touretts syndrom advocate. There was one mention that was correct, but it has my gender wrong. Haha
Can you expound on your use of peptides? My nephew was diagnised with crohns at the age of 10, but they now figure he was being mistreated when symptoms started at age 4. He is somehow still alive, but there have been significant developmental problems due to crohns and an overuse of steroids and other weird medications in his treatments.
His parents have been doing IV infusions for the past two years, which seem to be having more of a positive impact than anything the health care system did, and now they are about to start peptide therapy, which is something I know little about.
Sorry to hear that, my heart goes out to him. I post a lot about it here on HN, you can scroll through my prior posts, about half are on this. Also feel free to email me. Chrons is pretty common in people with hEDS, which is what I have, so while I don't have direct experience with having it myself I do know quite a few people who have had it.
Edit: had to do a quick double check, but the foods that I eat, and don't eat, are specifically for hEDS/ME/CFS brain fog which I believe is IL-1B cytokine related and I think it's plausible that this probably has a crossover to Crohn's. Listing it here as something to consider; A diet of zero sugar and zero fruit, a lot of kale, chia seeds, and pumpkin seeds. I do one meal a day, and an occasional extended water fast. For vitamins I take TUDCA, DIM, and D3.
Prolonged use of steroids can cause dysautonomia which causes a plethora of other issues. So understanding dysautonomia could help. I also use a weak ligand approach to dysautonomia which is unusual with the use of modafinil and amitriptyline.
Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) is a rather benign medication that's been known to help. There is little downside to trying it - so it can be used as a bit of a diagnostic in addition to treatment. Of course DIY research rules apply.
One of my more out there theories that seems to be quickly gaining traction is that a low dose of GLP-1 agonists can be surprisingly good for autoimmune conditions.
Most of my other peptides are hEDS focused and include VIP, Ipamorelin, Selank/Semax, and BPc157/TB500. Though I really only take the ipamorelin and semaglutide these days. These are a bit more risky but since my alternative is to be very sick I have a different risk tolerance profile compared to most.
Would putting some UV filter glass, the kind often used in museums, work to protect it the resin? I'm wondering if you fixed a glass casing around it that way... granted you'd have corner seems for the glass though
I was thinking about a larger with less curvature glass. It might also be interesting to see if it's possible to match the refractive indexes of the epoxy and the glass.
In short, my experience with Agile is that is only adds a way to quantify what happens, so it definitely creates an illusion of productivity. I do see how it is actually useful when talking to managers and investors about progress. However from the engineers' view it is just more of an administrative burden. In my view the "sin" that Agile committed was the promise of productivity, when really (from engineering viewpoints) it appears to be an unnecessary accountability mechanism.
I worked in fiance once with Agile, where there exists in the culture an infinite growth mindset. So I found that we were putting a metric to everything possible, expecting future "improvements" and peoples' salaries were dependent on it. Some companies probably don't suffer from this though.
> Agile is that is only adds a way to quantify what happens, so it definitely creates an illusion of productivity
> ...
> I worked in fiance once with Agile ... I found that we were putting a metric to everything possible, expecting future "improvements" and peoples' salaries were dependent on it.
It's fascinating to me how different a meaning different people put into the word 'agile'. The 'agile' of the founders was about small teams, close collaboration with the customer, and frequent feedback based on the real emerging working software, which allowed the customer to adapt and change their mind early (hence 'agile', as in 'flexible'). What it contrasted itself to was heavy, slow-moving organisations, with large interdependent teams, multiple layers of management between developers and customers, and long periods of planning (presentations, designs, architecture, etc.) without working code to back it up. All this sounds to me like an intuitively good idea and a natural way to work. None of that resembles the monstrosity that people complain about while calling it 'agile'. In fact, I feel that this monstrosity is the creature of the pre-agile period that appropriated the new jargon.
I work on a REM team in a SOC for a big finance company all you US people know. An employee can't hardly fart in front of their corporate machine without us knowing about it. How do you all think managed cyber security works?